16 Confirmed Dead, Pilot Sole Survivor As Plane Crashes at Kathmandu.
16 Confirmed Dead, Pilot Sole Survivor As Plane Crashes at Kathmandu: A passenger plane crashed during take-off in Kathmandu on Wednesday, with the pilot rescued from the wreckage but all 16 others aboard killed, police in the Nepali capital told AFP.
The Saurya Airlines flight was carrying two crew and 17 of the company’s staff members, Nepali police spokesman Dan Bahadur Karki said.
“The pilot has been rescued and is being treated,” he said. “Eighteen bodies have been recovered, including one foreigner. We are in the process of taking them for post-mortem.”